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SECTION 118 · SOURCE PAGES 587–588

Rabbit Meat

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Rabbit meat is mildly hot and dry, and the best

PAGE 588

part of it is the hip. The best way to eat rabbit meat is by roasting it. Rabbit meat constipates, produces urine, as a diuretic, and dissolves stones. Eating the rabbit's head benefits against convulsive shaking,

Zebra meat

In the Sahihain it is narrated that Abu Qatadah said that the Companions were once with the Messenger of Allah b during an Umrah trip and that he hunted a zebra and the Prophet b told them to eat it. They were assuming the state of Thram then, unlike Abu Qatadah.

Ibn Majah In addition narrated that Jabir 'a <iii ~ said, "During the battle of Khaibar, we ate horsemeat and zebra meat."

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